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Reading a book is not theft. Building a business on processing other people's copyrighted material to produce content is.
I think that's called a school
Captcha seems to be the only solution to prevent it and yet this is the worst UX for people. The big publishers will probably get their cut no matter what but I’m not sure if AI will leave any room for small/medium publishers in the long run.
Not for long.
Web site owners shouldn’t dictate what browser users can access their site with - whether that’s chrome, firefox, or something totally different like perplexity.
When retrieving a web page _for the user_ it’s appropriate to use a UA string that looks like a browser client.
If perplexity is collecting training data in bulk without using their UA that’s a different thing, and they should stop. But this article doesn’t show that.
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Reading a book is not theft. Building a business on processing other people's copyrighted material to produce content is.
I think that's called a school
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> and thinking they can get away with it Can they not? I think that remains to be seen.
Exactly. It's like when Uber started and flaunted the medallion taxi system of many cities. People said "These Uber people are idiots! They are going to get shut down! Don't they know the laws for taxis?" While a small number of cities did ban Uber (and even that generally only temporarily), in the end Uber basically won. I think a lot of people confuse what they want to happen versus what will happen.
I don’t think we should lump together “AI company scraping a website to train their base model” and “AI tool retrieving a web page because I asked it to”. At least, those should be two different user agents so you have the option to block one and not the other.
I don’t think we should lump together “AI company scraping a website to train their base model” and “AI tool retrieving a web page because I asked it to”. At least, those should be two different user agents so you have the option to block one and not the other.
big tech hates piracy when it applies to their products, but condone it when it applies to others' content.
spread the word. see ai-slop ? say something ! see ai-theft ?say something ! staying quiet is encouraging theiving.